La Moitié gauche du frigo

Film maker Philippe Falardeau mixes mockumentary about unemployment with a political statement about the destructive corporate greed of capitalistic politics. He filmed this in 1999, but it does not represent a specific year. The audience enjoyed this tale of foibles encountered in his roommates quest to end unemployment with the 'right' job. The absurd pickiness of Engineering job ads was good for laughs, but it's truth was rather revolting. This story was inspired by the director's real former roommate, and was his statement of complaint of about how "when you loose your job, you loose your social identity," and the systemic destruction that goes with that loss in modern globalized society. This French language film was made in Quebec and will be released in France... with French subtitles. The acting is very natural, and the locations fit the story well. This is well filmed, a good story, and worth seeing.

Falardeau said that the story was obviously made up by the end because nobody's life could be that bad. Of course until then, he hadn't met me.

...but the acting should've been more real. It feels very fake.

Some scenes were really funny and flowed well with the rest of the film. And it might be worth watching for its attempt at a mock doc. But again, if the acting was more natural, this film would've worked.

The misconception and the high expectations that University students have about the ideal job can be deceiving, facing the reality of the availability (or lack of) of works without compromising their principles is harsh. The concept "documentary" that Philippe Falardeau choose is the perfect example of Québec way to resolve the problem of lack of money to do a movie. And it works perfectly. Some of the dialogues in this movie are simply sharp and clever. Falardeau found a great way to expose the contingencies of the real world that we live in by following a young man freshly out of school ready to conquer the world.

Wonderfully acted.

The first time I watched this film I thought it was a real documentary and I got totally sucked in. This is definitely a film worth watching at least twice.

Philippe Falardeau's film is clever, touching, funny; has amazing documentary qualities.

Actor's performances are so good, that one forgets that they are not "real" people in a "real" crisis. I'm looking forward to see the next Philippe Falardeau's film